6 hours ago
(6 hours ago)SunsetBengal Wrote: Was the FS experiment jaded, due to Anarumo's complicated schemes that obviously required seasoned veterans to execute properly, or because Dax was too dim to run and defend? I'm going with the former. Why? Because the entire defense, even the patchwork of backups in the secondary played remarkably better after everything was "simplified". As we saw with the Bill Lazor experiment at OC that year, a brilliant coach can come up with the best laid plans and schemes, but it means nothing if it can't be easily communicated to the people executing said plan.
In other words, I'm fully on board with Golden's approach of having all DBs play all of the positions, in order to fully know and have tactile executed the responsibilities for each and every role in his coverage schemes.
It was probably a multitude of reasons why he wasn't successful at that position. I would say that he was primarily a SS/NB in college and moving to FS is a he'll of an adjustment for a player to make.
In college he played 1,214 snaps at SS/NB vs 311 at FS vs 68 at CB/DL. So he roughly played 20% of the snaps at FS. (According to PFF)
